The Benefits of South Dallas
Are Becoming Hard to Ignore

DALLAS -- The boom in North Dallas could be the best thing that's happened to South Dallas in years.

While the rest of the city grew at breakneck speed in the first half of the decade, the sleepy 180 square miles below the Trinity River were, as usual, all but ignored. But now, economists and community activists say, it's South Dallas's turn -- because North Dallas has just about topped out.